Caesar neumann



UNITED sTATEs PATENT orrion.'

CAESAR NEUMANN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SKELETON HOOP-SKIRT.

Specification forming` part of Letters Patent No. 25,976, dated November1, 1859; Reissued June 26, 1860, No. 991.

To all 'whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, CAESAR NEUMANN, of New York, in the county of NewYork and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Skirt forLadies; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters ofreference marked thereon.

Figure I is a view of my improved skirt, in which A A A A show thehoops, inserted between the twisted strands, B B B B, a series of cordsfor connecting the hoops (A A A A) together and formed by twisting aseries of strands together. C, C, C, show the points at which the hoops(A A A A) are inserted between the strands.

Fig. II is a view of the manner in which the manufacture of the skirt iscommenced, A showing the first hoop inserted between a series ofstrands; C, C the points of insertion; D D D D, a series of two or morestrands, by twisting together which, the cords (B B B B, Fig. I) areformed.

Fig. III shows the manner in which the manufacture of the skirt iscontinued, A showing the iirst hoop inserted between two or morestrands; B, the cord formed by twisting together two or more strands; CC C C the points of inserting the hoops between the strands; D D D D thestrands, between which the hoops are inserted and which are twistedtogether to form the coils, (B B B B, Fig. I,) E, the second hoopinserted between the strands (D D D D).

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention I willproceed to describe its construction.

My improvement consists in cheapening the construction of skirts knownas skeleton skirts by the employment of strands of cord so twisted as toretain the hoops of spring steel or other material forming the springhoops in their places by which great facility and cheapness ofconstruction is attained materially reducing the cost of manufacture asheretofore ract-iced. To effect this desirable result take the ordinaryspring hoops used in skeleton skirts however constructed and firsttwisting two or more strands hard I place one of the hoops in the bightand by the back twistof the strand form a cord over the spring and thusfasten it. Cords formed as thus described are placed at equal distancesall around the hoop suificiently far apart for the purposes of properlysustaining the hoop, for strength and durability as shown in the drawingand the formation of each of the cords extend to the length of thedistance the hoops are to be placed apart when a second hoop isintroduced and a new section of cord is laid over it. This process iscontinued until the whole skirt is completed. This mode of connectingthe spring hoops of a skirt it is obvious admits of great rapidity ofconstruction.

The twisted cord has heretofore been employed in rope ladders and someother constructions and is consequently not new. I therefore do not makeany claim thereto as of my invention. But

What I do claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patentis- Combining a series of spring hoops as herein set forth by means of aseries of twisted cord and thus forming a skeleton skirt as abovespecified.

CAE SAR NEUMANN.

Witnesses:

ELKAN LEWRINGER, A. SIDNEY DoANE.

